David Campese
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David Campese is a legendary Australian rugby union winger renowned for his prolific try-scoring, unpredictable running, and influential role in the sport during the 1980s and early 1990s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Campese canonical | 4 |
| David Ian Campese | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4573413 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Campese Context triple: [1991 Rugby World Cup, mostTriesScoredByPlayer, David Campese]
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A.
Dan Carter
Dan Carter is a legendary New Zealand rugby union fly-half widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the sport’s history.
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B.
Ben Cousins
Ben Cousins is a former Australian rules footballer best known as a Brownlow Medal–winning midfielder and premiership player for the West Coast Eagles whose brilliant career was overshadowed by well-publicized off-field issues.
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C.
Mal Meninga
Mal Meninga is a legendary Australian rugby league player and coach, renowned for his powerful centre play and long-standing leadership of Queensland’s State of Origin team and the Australian national side.
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D.
Matfield
Matfield is a small rural village in Kent, England, known for its traditional village green and historic buildings.
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E.
Jonny Wilkinson
Jonny Wilkinson is a former English rugby union fly-half best known for his pivotal role in England’s 2003 Rugby World Cup victory, including kicking the winning drop goal in the final.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Campese Target entity description: David Campese is a legendary Australian rugby union winger renowned for his prolific try-scoring, unpredictable running, and influential role in the sport during the 1980s and early 1990s.
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A.
Dan Carter
Dan Carter is a legendary New Zealand rugby union fly-half widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the sport’s history.
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B.
Ben Cousins
Ben Cousins is a former Australian rules footballer best known as a Brownlow Medal–winning midfielder and premiership player for the West Coast Eagles whose brilliant career was overshadowed by well-publicized off-field issues.
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C.
Mal Meninga
Mal Meninga is a legendary Australian rugby league player and coach, renowned for his powerful centre play and long-standing leadership of Queensland’s State of Origin team and the Australian national side.
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D.
Matfield
Matfield is a small rural village in Kent, England, known for its traditional village green and historic buildings.
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E.
Jonny Wilkinson
Jonny Wilkinson is a former English rugby union fly-half best known for his pivotal role in England’s 2003 Rugby World Cup victory, including kicking the winning drop goal in the final.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
rugby union player ⓘ rugby union winger ⓘ |
| activeInDecade |
1980s
ⓘ
1990s ⓘ |
| awardReceived | World Rugby Hall of Fame induction ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Australia ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1962-10-21 ⓘ |
| debutForNationalTeam | 1982 ⓘ |
| era | amateur era of international rugby union ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasWritten | autobiographical rugby books ⓘ |
| heritage | Italian descent ⓘ |
| holdsRecord | one of the highest try totals in international rugby union history ⓘ |
| influenced |
attacking style of Australian rugby
ⓘ
later generations of rugby wingers ⓘ |
| jerseyNumber | 11 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
prolific try-scoring
ⓘ
the "goose-step" sidestep move ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Amatori Rugby Milano
ⓘ
Australia national rugby union team ⓘ New South Wales Waratahs ⓘ Petrarca Rugby ⓘ Randwick DRUFC ⓘ |
| name |
David Ian Campese
ⓘ
linked to:
David Campese
|
| nickname | Campo ⓘ |
| notableMatch | semi-final of the 1991 Rugby World Cup against New Zealand ⓘ |
| numberOfInternationalCaps | 101 ⓘ |
| numberOfInternationalTries | 64 ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
professional rugby union player ⓘ rugby coach ⓘ sports commentator ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
1987 Rugby World Cup
ⓘ
1991 Rugby World Cup ⓘ 1995 Rugby World Cup ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
ⓘ
linked to:
Queanbeyan
|
| placeOfDebut | against New Zealand in Christchurch ⓘ |
| playsForNationalTeam |
Wallabies
ⓘ
linked to:
Australia national rugby union team
|
| positionPlayed |
fullback
ⓘ
wing ⓘ |
| residence | Australia ⓘ |
| roleInTeam | key attacking player for Australia in the late 1980s and early 1990s ⓘ |
| scoredIn | 1991 Rugby World Cup semi-final against New Zealand ⓘ |
| sport | rugby union ⓘ |
| styleOfPlay |
counter-attacking rugby
ⓘ
unpredictable running ⓘ |
| won | 1991 Rugby World Cup ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: David Campese Description of subject: David Campese is a legendary Australian rugby union winger renowned for his prolific try-scoring, unpredictable running, and influential role in the sport during the 1980s and early 1990s.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: David Campese